Hallelujah, Shrek Song

[whattheduck]

OK, you know the song form Shrek, the Hallelujah one? Its a very pretty song, I just dont understand it at all. Ive tryed many a time, and now its buggin me (I was listoning to the soundtract yesterday for the first time in like a year...) anyone know? here all the lyrics for a refresher,

I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe I've been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
love is not a victory march
Its a cold and its a broken hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was a time you'd let me know
What's real and going on below
But now you never show it to me do you?
Remember when I moved in you?
The holy dark was moving too
And every breath we drew was hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe there's a God above
And all I ever learned from love
was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
Its not a cry you can hear at night
Its not somebody who's seen the light
Its a cold and its a broken hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Thanks!!!

 

[bazooka_beak]

Hmmm... I'm not sure either. But it's a nice song

 

[Beauregard]

Would this be David and Bethsheba?

David, if I recall, saw her bathing on the roof and killed her husband so that he could marry her, and the Lord killed a load of Isralies as a punishment...

 

[dmx10101]

David, if I recall, saw her bathing on the roof and killed her husband so that he could marry her, and the Lord killed a load of Isralies as a punishment...

What???

 

[Whatever]

Bible stuff.

 

[Smy Guiley]

I believe that the song "Hallelujah" was written by Canadian singer/poet Leonard Cohen. A BRILLIANT man that writes some of the most picturesque lyrics of our time. If you want to hear a very emotional version of the song, find Jeff Buckley's recording of it. Come to think of it, I suggest everyone find ALL of Jeff Buckley's work. Quite moving.

I don't ever try to understand Cohen. I just sit back and enjoy!

eric

 

[Don'tLiveonMoon]

Would this be David and Bethsheba?

David, if I recall, saw her bathing on the roof and killed her husband so that he could marry her, and the Lord killed a load of Isralies as a punishment...

Yeah, that was what I was thinking when I saw that verse too. So maybe the song has something to do with love just bringing trouble? I think there's a reference to Samson and Delilah in there too.
Erin

 

[anathema]

The recording on the soundtrack to the film is not the same one as on the soundtrack album, btw. They were performed by John Cale and Rufus Wainwright respectively.

 

[Smy Guiley]

Yeah, that was what I was thinking when I saw that verse too. So maybe the song has something to do with love just bringing trouble? I think there's a reference to Samson and Delilah in there too.
Erin

That's it exactly! Cohen puts it in a very, um, literate context and laces it with total sarcasm, doesn't he? It comes out great. You know, he (Cohen) recently (I mean in the last 10 years) dropped out of the music business, and went up a mountain to live with monks! Then, in the last couple of years, he came back and released an album about the experience. I haven't heard it, but can you imagine? Especially with HIS writing! Sheesh! I'm sure it's intense.

eric